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Hillary Clinton has launched and re-launched her presidential campaign, and now that she’s trailing Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire, Andrea Mitchell seems to think the Etch-a-Sketch needs another shake to clear the board and start over:

Yet, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell incredibly said Thursday on The Today Show that Clinton had an opportunity to re-introduce herself to New Hampshire voters at Thursday nights MSNBC debate between her and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), implying that maybe voters dont know Clinton well enough.

Trying to narrow the gap here, but counting on blunting Sanders momentum three weeks from now in South Carolina, where Bill Clinton was already campaigning Wednesday night, Mitchell said. And tonights debate is really Hillary Clintons last chance to re-introduce herself to New Hampshire voters, who are so far overwhelmingly supporting Bernie Sanders from neighboring Vermont.

Video at the link.

Hillary’s problem isn’t that another introduction is in order but rather people have already had a long time to get to know her.

In August, we learned that IT company Platte River Networks, which maintained Hillary Clinton’s private email server, likely had made a backup copy of the data. Tonight, McCatchy Newspapers is reporting that another IT company, the Connecticut-basedDatto Inc., was hired by Platte Riverto make a cloud-based backup of the server.

On May 31, 2013, four months after Clinton left office, the Clinton Executive Service Corp., which oversaw her email server contracts, hired Platte River to maintain her account. Its New Jersey-based server replaced the server in her New York home that had handled her emails throughout her tenure as secretary of state.

Several weeks ago, Platte River employees discovered that her private server was syncing with an offsite Datto server, he said.

When Datto acknowledged that was the case, a Platte River employee replied in an email: This is a problem.

Clinton is set to testify before the Select Committee on Benghazi on Oct. 22.

The Washington Post also reports that Datto, Inc.plans to provide the FBI copies of any data found on its backups.

A lettersent to JohnsonbyDatto“cites some colorful internal e-mails from Platte River that were sent in August,” reports the Washington Post.

In one exchange, a Platte River employee working on the Clinton account discusses with a colleague whether there was a written record of a directive to cut the backup.

The context is not clear, but it suggests there was growing anxiety over how the system was managed and who would be held responsible. At about the time of that exchange, Platte River had been in discussions with Datto about the length of time Clinton e-mail data was preserved and whether copies were saved, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

If we had that email we are golden, the employee wrote.

Starting to think this whole thing really is covering up some shaddy [sic] shit, the employee wrote.